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Students And Digital Projects At Wmu: Working And Learning Together, Marianne Swierenga

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

Western Michigan University Libraries uses undergraduate and graduate students in many stages of their digital projects, from finding aid creation and translation, to scanning and editing digital images. Using the recent digitization and description of a WWI German soldier’s scrapbook, we will examine how students are incorporated into the overall workflow, often bringing needed skills to the project and gaining valuable hands-on experience with archival materials, scanning equipment and software, and metadata creation.

A New Publishing Landscape: The Curiosities, Opportunities, & Pitfalls Of Open Access Publishing, Kristen Cvancara, Laura Jacobi, Heidi J. Southworth

Communication Studies Department Publications

Open access (OA) publishing is a unique model for disseminating academic work to a larger readership that is not controlled by traditional publishing/subscription gate-keepers. This panel provides an informative session reviewing OA as a new publishing landscape ripe with opportunities and potential pitfalls. To help you navigate this uncharted terrain, three presenters will guide you through a discussion covering OA's origin story, models under which OA operates, pros and cons of the OA landscape, and differing perspectives on OA from a variety of academic stakeholders. The goal of the session is to educate participants about OA publishing and generate an …

"The Shoe Is Too Small And Not Made For You!": Racial "Covering" And The Illusion Of Fit, Silvia L. Lin Hanick

Publications and Research

This chapter appears in In Our Own Voices, Redux: The Faces of Librarianship Today, edited by Teresa Y. Neely and Jorge R. López-McKnight. Using Kenji Yoshino's writings about racial covering, I use an autoethnography approach to investigate how I came into the field of librarianship. I reflect on my experience as a second-generation Taiwanese-American woman growing up in Southern California, going to library school in Illinois, and starting my career in New Mexico.

Expanding Our Impact Through Collaborative Practice: Models Of Engagement For Librarians, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

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What We Can Learn From Wikipedia: Why We Should Jump On Board, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

Wikipedia is a proven model for openly and effectively creating and distributing high quality information in a way that users can easily access it. Its success provides lessons for the library profession to learn and challenges some of our assumptions about how we might address the mission of providing free and open access to everyone. Wikipedia is a platform for librarians to put their professional skills to work adding content and improving the quality of the entries while addressing the gender imbalance of the male-dominated group of contributors that are currently doing this work.

What Collaboration Means To Me: Perspectives On Library/Vendor Collaboration, Erin Gallagher

Collaborative Librarianship

There is much librarians and content providers can do to challenge the narrative that we are constantly at odds, both within the legacy relationship of buyer and seller and within new opportunities for collaboration. This column offers insights and practical suggestions for enriched relationships and future collaboration from the unique perspective of working for and with both vendors and libraries.

Field Report On The Friendly Counter Guides, Lorraine Estelle Ms

Collaborative Librarianship

Since 2003, libraries and publishers have been working with and using COUNTER usage statistics as a core metrics. However, both the producers and users of COUNTER usage reports described difficulty in understanding and interpreting the Code of Practice which sets out the standard for recording and reporting usage of electronic resources. This issue led COUNTER to collaborate with many partners around the world to produce Friendly Guides. These are non-intimidating manuals which explain terminology, the purpose of the usage reports and provide tips how on how to use COUNTER data. This paper explains how collaboration has been essential in …

An Exploration Of Academic Librarian Positions Dedicated To Serving First Year College Students, Katelyn Angell

Collaborative Librarianship

Within library literature there are many articles that describe academic librarians’ experiences working with first year college students. For example, teaching information literacy skills, assessing student learning, and serving as a personal librarian. However, there is not much formal research that compiles and investigates the professional responsibilities, campus partnerships, challenges, and successes of librarians in a first year experience (FYE) role. The existence of numerous FYE librarian positions combined with a lack of scholarship exploring this important role necessitated an empirical study surveying these librarians to learn more about their jobs.

Yours, Mine, Ours: A Study Of A Successful Academic & Public Library Collaboration, Sierra Laddusaw, Jennifer Wilhelm

Collaborative Librarianship

This article studies the development of a collaboration between the Bryan + College Station Public Library System (BCSPLS) and Texas A&M University Libraries. Desiring to increase program attendance and add greater value to the local community, the BCSPLS approached the University Libraries to propose collaboration on a variety of events. The successes of the collaborative programs have met the goals of the public library while also increasing Texas A&M’s collection visibility and strengthening A&M’s ties to the public. The study argues that academic/public library collaborations benefit the participating institutions and add value to the local community.

Learn By Doing: Cal Poly Pomona's Efforts To Modernize Archival Practices And Increase Student Life Records In Special Collections And Archives Through Collaborative Partnerships, Katie Richardson, Alexis Adkins, Elizabeth Gomez

Collaborative Librarianship

"Learn by Doing" focuses on the steps Cal Poly Pomona Special Collections and Archives staff have taken to modernize and align unit practices with other special collections and archival repositories in the field and their effort to increase the documentation of student life in their university archives. The article outlines steps taken, lessons learned, partnerships established along the way, and suggestions for those wishing to engage in a similar endeavor.

Finals Week Unplugged: Fostering Student Success With Snacks, Dogs, And Naps, Maria Atilano

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Finals Week is an extremely stressful time for college students. While a busy library may seem like the last place for some much needed relaxation, the University of North Florida’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library is working hard to help their students cope. During finals, we plan stress - relieving events and activities to foster academic success and mental well being. Popular events include PAWS Your Stress featuring friendly service dogs, free Late - night Coffee and Snacks, and pop - up Random Acts of Snacks. The library also offers a coloring station to incite creativity, and a sleep zone to …

Undiscovered Formats For Undiscovered Readers, Amanda Melilli, Huston Green

Library Faculty Presentations

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Whose Job Is It? Strategies Of A Team-Based Institutional Repository, Alicia Marrese

Lavery Library Faculty/Staff Publications

St. John Fisher College’s Lavery Library has a growing institutional repository, but no full-time position dedicated to it. In the five years since the repository’s creation, Lavery Library has employed a library-wide team effort to support the repository’s development. This poster depicts some of the successful strategies this small academic library has employed while collectively endeavoring to archive new content, including vital collaborations between library departments and other faculty and staff on campus.

Latinas/Laatinos/Latinx: Anthropological Approaches Apg 316, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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A Theological Library’S Efforts To Complement Faith Formation, Andrew Kosmowski

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

In the fall of 2016, a librarian at the Marian Library was approached about the possibility of preparing an art lesson that would also support catechesis of the parish school students. This poster presentation will summarize how the Marian Library's special collections have been used to complement ongoing faith formation efforts of both adults and children.

Illustrating A Technical Manual: Copyright And Fair Use In A Real World Professional Context, Karyn Hinkle

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This lesson was developed for students preparing to enter professional practice who were assigned to write and/or illustrate a technical howto manual on a topic of their choice (how to put on ski boots, draw blood, use a fitness tracking app, etc.). The teaching librarian conducts a class session on finding and creating images to illustrate the manuals and teaches differences between using copyrighted and non-copyrighted images. The students work on finding images in the public domain, creating their own images, and incorporating copyrighted images via Creative Commons licenses and the principle of fair use. Librarians can teach this lesson …

Flipped Library Sessions: Customized Instruction That Prioritizes Applied Information Literacy Learning, Nicole R. Webber, Stephanie Wiegand

University Libraries Publications

Time constraints often restrict the instruction of unique research skills required by a given subject area. By collaborating with instructors, librarians can offer flexible and efficient content that improves student information literacy skills. Meet librarians who have implemented various flipped methods and tools for distinct instructor and course needs.

The Nebraska Ir: How We Make It Work, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Digital Commons @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Established 2005; Contents 98,000 items; Downloads 50 million to date; Annual downloads 6.5 million (18,000/day); Rank in USA (size) #3 (UCal199,000; UMich120,000); Rank in USA (downloads) #1.

The university’s most-visited site:18% of all web traffic !

Contents & downloads by series/item types.

Rule #1, Make it easy; Rule # 2, Give immediate feedback.

How do I get my articles into the repository ?

Basic policy: The IR belongs to the faculty.

We are 100% voluntary. No mandated deposit policy (Harvard model). Usage reports are our best recruitment tool. We are 99.9% full-text.

SEO: Top …

Applied And Environmental Microbiology Journal: A Bibliometric Perception, Rubinandhini A, Gomathi P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study evaluates the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal (AEMJ). It is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by American Society for Microbiology. It was established in 1953 as Applied Microbiology and obtained its current name in 1975. The American Society for Microbiology is the largest single life science, society, composed of over 47,000 scientists and health professionals. ASM's mission is to promote and move forward the microbial sciences. The present bibliometrics study was 15291 scholarly research articles published in ‘Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal, during the period 2001-2015. The collected data were analyzed with the help of ‘Bibexcel …

Practical Management Or Practical Magic: A Conversation With Lance Werner And Julene Jones. Managing Dysfunctional Environments, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

Presentation and discussion on the topic of working in or managing dysfunctional environments.

Promote Campus Scholarship, Barbara Potts

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Promoting the scholarship created on your campus is imperative to recruitment, enrollment, and reputation. If you are thinking of starting a scholarly publishing program, have a program, or are interested in hearing how scholarly publishing works, come to our round-table to join in the conversation. Topics for discussion will include: 1. Faculty buy in, partnering with other departments on campus, or starting a yearly research symposia, 2. Copyright, posting journal articles or assisting professors with a portfolio of their work and 3. Showcasing student work. Share what has worked on your campus and what has not. All are welcome to …

An Analysis Of Women Faculty Attitudes, Perceptions And Experiences Of Information Access Competency, Jeyshankar -. Ramalingam -, Vellaichamy Alagarsamy

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper aims to present the awareness of library rules, use of library services and information access competency of the women faculty members (Mother Teresa Women’s University and its affiliated colleges) was investigated for their opinions and experiences about assorted techniques of information access. Data were collected through questionnaire method. Copies of the questionnaires were distributed to 87.59% of population i.e. 254 out of 290 women faculty members in their staff rooms with the permission and assistance of the registrar/principal. This study showed that 242 (95.2%) respondents agree/strongly agree that ‘they can access printed and electronic reference sources’. 235 (92.5%) …

Back Matter, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Art Is A Drag Illuminates Exhibition Space, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Improving Access To Special Collections & University Archives' Digital Collection, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Course Reserve Improvements Support Classroom Success, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Visitors From Around The World, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Valeria Long: Always Learning, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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Gi-Gikinomaage-Min: We Are All Teachers, Grand Valley State University Libraries

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University Libraries Joins Diversity Alliance, Samantha Minnis

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